Text differences - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

6 Apr 2009

Fred Cisin <cisin at xenosoft.com> wrote:

...
  On Sat, 4 Apr 2009, Ian King wrote:
  > Source files should not be giving you a
'record problem' (since they're
 > text) - but there is another potential issue.  I downloaded some BASIC
 > source files on a PC, zipped them up and transferred them over to a VAX.
 > I picked one to compile (this is BASIC we're talking about), and it
 > failed with an error per line.  I opened up the file in TPU and
 > discovered that there was a 'spurious' CR at the end of each line.  I
 > removed those and everything compiled and linked.  Take a look at the
 > line-level translation that may be happening.  -- Ian  
 New-line is not really standardized. 
Definitely not.

...
  Although the machines may all claim to be using
ASCII,
 newline may be represented by
 CR LF,
 CR,
 LF,
 or LF CR (rarest) 
...or just a record end.

...
  The reasons are enough for a thread of its own.

If you even think that you can find a reason. :-)

	Johnny

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